Breast cancer is a devastating disease impacting 1 in 8 women in the United States alone – with a new diagnosis every 3 minutes and a death every 13 minutes! The numbers are sobering – but with every research dollar raised, we are that much closer to a cure.  To help with this cause, MyGrafico designers Blackleaf Studios, Cheri Wenger, DigiDiva, Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff, ReviDevi, Sanqunetti Design,Tainted Sweets and  Zenware Designs have joined forces with Stitching for Pink to create an exclusive collaborative kit for you with ALL of the proceeds going directly to Stitching for Pink to fund Breast Cancer Research:

This collaborative effort features 12 adorable clip art designs, 4 pattern papers, a printable collage sheet and a printable craft  – your $5 donation supports Breast Cancer research.

Together we will find a cure!

Welcome to another Thursday with Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff! This week Lindsay is the sponsor at Tuesday Morning Sketches as part of their 1st birthday celebration. In order to play along and be in the running for a fabulous FREE digital stamp set from Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff, all you have to do is create a project with ANY of the sketches from the past year – you’re sure to find one that gets your creativity flowing!  Though it was a tough choice, my inspiration is Melissa’s Sketch #2 combined with one of the digital stamps in Lindsay’s Girl Thing Digital Stamp set and Lindsay’s Uptown Houndstooth digital papers. I couldn’t decided if I liked red or black better as my primary color scheme – so I did both! As per my usual, I started out in Photoshop and designed my card base on a standard A2 canvas using Melissa’s sketch as a guide. The solid mats and heels are colored using my favorite Chalkies Photoshop Styles and the DP behind the image was created using a new favorite – Halftone Photoshop Styles, also from Jodiann.  I created the inside sentiments in Photoshop as well – using quotes from Bill Blass and Ginger Rogers – perfect GIRL sentiments. After printing on multi-purpose photo paper, I trimmed everything and adhered to my card bases. Then the embellishing fun began!  For this card I used adhesive crystal rhinestones on the shoe and my new I-Rock tool to add the graduated rhinestones to the mat edges.  For more sparkle, I added Red Stickles to the “fluff” on the shoe. I had planned on using some Fancy Fibers between my layers, but due to a printing issue (my printer decided to scale my base layer) my layers didn’t all print at the same size – so I had to “wing” it – though I’m not unhappy with the results and these will be much easier to mail!! For the 2nd card, I followed the same idea substituting black and white pearls (Michaels) for the the crystals and Black Stickles instead of red. Again, I am pleased with the end result – and I still can’t pick a favorite!

Challenges I Played In:

• Aimee’s Challenge Blog – Something For A Friend (Either Card)
• Alota Rubber Stamps – Glitter and Pearls (Black Card)
• One Stitch At A Time – Digi-Madness (Either Card)
• Papertake Weekly – Cutie Patootie (Red Card)
• Scrappy Frogs – Girlie Girl (Either Card)
• Sisterhood of Scrap – Monochrome (Red Card)
• Stamp Something – Digital (Either Card)

That’s all from me – my little one has a check-up this morning, so we’re off to town for that. If you didn’t arrive here from Lindsay’s blog, be sure to stop by – she has the links to the other DT blogs as well as yummy eye-candy and perhaps a freebie too!

Happy Thursday and welcome to another adventure in creating using Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff designs.  Lindsay recently released a stamp set to coordinate with her Steampunk Style SVG cutting files – so I decided to once again venture outside my comfort zone and create a card using one of her Steampunk Style Digital Stamps images. I paired the typewriter with one of the digi-papers in Lindsay’s School Papers printables in Photoshop and let my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL), and one of Penny Duncan’s awesome nesting cutting files do the rest.  In order to get my sizing correct, I used Inkscape to export the cutting file layers I wanted to use as bitmaps so that I could “read” them in Photoshop.  I resized the digital paper and clipped it to the cutting file template, duplicating as needed.  Then I added the typewriter image and printed out my layers.  I tried using Penny’s technique to cut the printed images with SCAL, but I wasn’t overly successful, so I opted to cut them out with my trusty scissors and use SCAL to cut my non-printed layers – which are embossed using Cuttlebug folders and my Big Shot. Before adhering everything together, I edged the layers with my Basic Black (SU) marker to seal the edges and add just a bit more definition. I also stippled Black Soot Distress Ink (Ranger) over the typewriter layer to combat the stark white CS I printed on – I thought the tiny bit of distressing added to the overall vintage feel. The card base is from DCWV La Crème box set – I am loving these! I wish our Joann’s had the 8×8 or 12×12 set of this style – it’s definitely on my wish list! I added pearl accents (Michaels) and viola – a 7-layer black and white vintagey card emerges.

Challenges I Played In:

• Incy Wincy Designs – Challenge #50
• KL  Stampin’ and Scrappin’ – Dry Embossing
• Little Paper Shop – Distressing
• Paper Sundaes – Lots of Layers
• Penny’s Challenges – 7 of Something
• Practical Scrappers – Embossing
• Paper Crafts Connection – Vintage Typewriter

If you haven’t been to Lindsay’s blog yet, be sure to stop by! She always has tons of inspiration as well as the links to the other DT projects.

Happy Crafting!